At least 1 in 7 people of the world's population have moved away from home, mainly because they have been forced to leave or for economic reasons, the head of the International Organization Migration said on Thursday, according to dpa. "We live in a period of unprecedented mobility with 250 million international migrants and 750 million internal migrants," IOM director general William Lacy Swing said ahead of a migration conference in Bangkok on Friday. "We are also seeing the highest number of forced migrants since the Second World War," Swing said, attributing the high numbers to the Ebola outbreak last year, ethnic clashes in sub-Saharan Africa and ongoing political instability in the Middle East.
